The class divide goes back further. Everyone remembers the youth movement of the 60s, but most people don’t remember that young people actually supported the Vietnam war in high margins. It was working-class young people who supported the war (and did most of the fighting and dying) and college students who were against it. Most young people didn’t go to college.
The class divide goes back further. Everyone remembers the youth movement of the 60s, but most people don’t remember that young people actually supported the Vietnam war in high margins. It was working-class young people who supported the war (and did most of the fighting and dying) and college students who were against it. Most young people didn’t go to college.
That's why the CCR song Fortunate Son resonated with so many in 1969.